From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fully udev-based hotplug system
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:43:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050624124321.GA22893@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050623215418.GA16536@wonderland.linux.it>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:35:38PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 24, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
>
> > > ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="input", BUS="serio", \
> > > RUN+="/etc/hotplug/serio.agent"
> >
> > The input subsystem is still broken and calls /sbin/hotplug directly.
> > The SUSE kernels introduced a "input_device"-class to solve that, but during
> > the last months the input-maintainers just _talk_ about ideas instead of
> > fixing that mess. :( The patch we use is attached.
> I understand that even if /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is udevsend its
> events will be ignored anyway as soon as a netlink message is received,
> is this correct?
No, with bypassing the driver core, the input events will not have
a SEQNUM and will not be ignored by udevd. You just don't get the
benefit of saving the kernel forked events for all the correct events.
I have not tried it, but it should work. If not, tell me and I will fix
it. :)
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-24 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-23 21:54 fully udev-based hotplug system Marco d'Itri
2005-06-24 3:04 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-06-24 5:00 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 5:02 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 12:27 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-24 12:35 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-06-24 12:43 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-06-24 18:33 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-06-24 18:50 ` Greg KH
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